Guys,

This belongs at the tail of the thread on LS upgrades. That one is soooo long that I think my post would get lost. 11 Pages and counting.

I have read many posts about spongy brakes being inherent to the LS caliper upgrade for the SC. My SC brakes are rock hard and are not confidence inspiring so I am going for the LS upgrade. I looked at my calipers and noted that they are mounted in the horizontal at the very top of the caliper. The single cylinder cavity is bled from the vey top and gets the bubble out every time. Easy bleed! All the air out with one pass at all four wheels.

I looked at the LS caliper and it has two major chambers... one on each side. It also has one bleed point on the same side as the fluid enters the twin cylinder asssembly. Me thinks that the LS was mounted, unlike the SC, in the verticle position. This would enable the bubble in both sides/halfs of the caliper to rise to the end of the chamber where the bleed valve is located. When we install this unit on an SC we install the unit in the horizontal where the original is located. This is un-natural. The bleed valve can only get the air bubble in half the caliper. To bleed the brakes that are modified: Support them in the vertical and gravity bleed them..... or, put a spacer in between the caliper pads and with the calipers held in the vertical position, bleed the brakes and then install the caliper after spreading the pads.

Given I haven't installed my calipers I think this makes perfect sense but I can be confused by facts, evidence and personal experience. Any body?

One poster said Aliga had the best brakes in the free world. How did you get the air out Gazi?

I don't think SS lines is the appropriate fix evn if one guy experienced a fix after doing so. I'm pretty sure the better bleeding was coincedental to the installation of SS. Not putting down SS now, mind you.

Thanks all.

John